30th Jan, 2025 11:00
Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Manuscripts - Timed Auction
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DE HAVILLAND & FONTAINE
DE HAVILLAND & FONTAINE: Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) British actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1946 for her role as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris in To Each His Own. An attractive vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of the elegant actress in a three-quarter length pose. Signed by de Havilland in white fountain pen ink to the base of the image; Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) British-born American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1941 for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion. Younger sister of De HavillandA good vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Fontaine seated in a half-length pose in costume as high society hostess Kendall Hale from the film Serenade (1956) in which Fontaine starred opposite Mario Lanza. Signed by Fontaine in bold blue fountain pen ink with her name alone to a light area of the image. A few very light, extremely minor surface and corner creases, VG, 2
De Havilland and Fontaine, who maintained an uneasy relationship from childhood, and stopped talking to one another from the 1970s onwards, are the only siblings in the history of the Academy Awards to have won lead acting Oscars.
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DE HAVILLAND & FONTAINE: Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) British actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1946 for her role as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris in To Each His Own. An attractive vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of the elegant actress in a three-quarter length pose. Signed by de Havilland in white fountain pen ink to the base of the image; Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) British-born American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1941 for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion. Younger sister of De HavillandA good vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Fontaine seated in a half-length pose in costume as high society hostess Kendall Hale from the film Serenade (1956) in which Fontaine starred opposite Mario Lanza. Signed by Fontaine in bold blue fountain pen ink with her name alone to a light area of the image. A few very light, extremely minor surface and corner creases, VG, 2
De Havilland and Fontaine, who maintained an uneasy relationship from childhood, and stopped talking to one another from the 1970s onwards, are the only siblings in the history of the Academy Awards to have won lead acting Oscars.
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Auction: Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Manuscripts - Timed Auction, 30th Jan, 2025
